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I wonder what percent of Americans would trade their privacy to bring their monthly cell phone bill from $100/mo to $0/mo in exchange for sharing texts and emails with a telecom company.

I suspect the percentage would be surprisingly high.

Unfortunately normal people don’t really care that much about privacy (even if we all think everyone should).




you mean, exactly like most the public on this site did when moving from Gmail and abandoning their isp provided email?


Why would ISP provided email be any more private than Gmail? If anything, I expect ISP provided email to be more compromised.


Because it’s a lot easier to compromise one email provider instead of a million. I’m surprised I have to explain the benefits of federated over centralized systems here.


at&t main revenue channel wasn't selling you to advertisers before google showed them how profitable, and willingly everyone was.




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